Security experts predict that next year the industry will face a lot of new challenges, many of the things that until now have not been considered so important, will affect regular users and organizations worldwide.
Websense Security Labs released their predictions for 2012 concerning the threats that will target in... |
18 November 2011
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A new partnership between Facebook and the security solutions provider Websense should further make sure that the social media network's members are properly protected against online threats.
"Facebook cares deeply about protecting users from potentially malicious content on the internet," revealed Dan Rubins... |
4 October 2011
05:21 GMT |
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The company operating bit.ly, the Internet's most popular URL shortening service, has enlisted the help of VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to protect its users from spam. Each of the vendors will provide bit.ly with fundamentally different URL checking technologies for what aims to be one of the most complete and ... |
1 December 2009
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Torrentreactor, one of the largest torrent indexers, has been compromised by unknown attackers who injected a hidden IFrame into its pages. The IFrame loads malicious code from a remote server that attempts to exploit software on visitors' computers and infect them with malware. The incident has been reported b... |
2 July 2009
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Security researchers from Websense warn that a new wave of web injection attacks is rapidly making thousands of victims. The new complex threat, dubbed Nine-Ball, features obfuscated code, multi-level redirection, visitor filtering and attempts to exploit multiple vulnerabilities found in popular applications. This ... |
19 June 2009
08:11 GMT |
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Researchers from net security company Websense warn that a particular section of the MSN Canada website has fallen victim to hackers who injected rogue code into a page used for redirection. The code is obfuscated and loads content from a domain associated with malware distribution. The msn.ca website redirects to s... |
12 June 2009
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Researchers from Internet security vendor Websense warn of a new wave of web attacks that has resulted in 40,000 websites being compromised. The new threat injects malicious obfuscated JavaScript code, which subsequently loads and attempts to execute numerous exploits from a third-party server. According to the comp... |
3 June 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Researchers from IT communications security company Websense warn that the website of Portugal's Embassy in India has been compromised by malware distributors and is currently attempting to run exploits for no less than six vulnerabilities in different software packages. Several rogue IFrames have been injected... |
21 March 2009
07:30 GMT |
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Researchers from web security vendor Websense have documented a new hotmail account creation attack, which is able to successfully solve the new CAPTCHA system redesigned by Microsoft at the end of 2008 in order to address previous abuse. CAPTHCA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers a... |
16 February 2009
05:50 GMT |
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) makes the subject of a recent phishing campaign, the security researchers from IT security vendor Websense warn. This attack tries to capitalize on the upcoming deadline for submitting tax return applications online. The Canada Revenue Agency is the Canadian version of the U.S. IRS, an... |
22 January 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Websense is a security company whose products protect a firm's employees from external and internal computer security threats. Now, they've acquired SurfControl, which is no small company - it had cost Websense about $415 million. The company is growing and expanding its security portfolio, as well as its c... |
4 October 2007
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